The papers reprinted here all have to do with the very varied ways in which religion made an impact upon, or was intertwined with, political and social life. Th

The period from 1066 to 1272, from the Norman Conquest to the death of Henry III, was one of enormous political change in England and of innovation in the Churc

These studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages. Although the Jews in m

The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the Wes

The followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) formed one of the greatest challenges to the medieval Latin Church. Branded as heretics, outla